26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan on terror financing charges
26/11 attacks mastermind and LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi has been arrested in Pakistan on terror financing charges
Publish Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 02:57 PM IST
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New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: LeT operations commander and 26/11 attacks mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Pakistan on terror financing charges on Saturday.
Lakhvi was listed as a global terrorist by the United Nations after the 2008 Mumbai Attacks. He was released from a Pakistani jail in 2015 after spending nearly six years in detention.
Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday by the Counter-Terrorism Department. The CTD, however, did not mention his place of arrest, news agency PTI reported. Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing, it said.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan over terror financing
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He was on bail in the Mumbai attack case; arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department.
Alleged Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, an official said.
Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province.
However, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest.
“Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” it said.